Arisaig 2026 13: The Glenfinnan Station Museum

Continuing my account of my Scottish holiday with a look at the Glenfinnan Station Museum, with plenty of photographs.

A time line relating to Glenfinnan Station. The title appears at the bottom and the dates are listed upwards. From bottom to top those dates are: 1894 West Highland RailwayCo. submit proposals for Mallaig Extension to Parliament. 1896 Parliament Passes Bill for Construction to Start. 1897 Building works start on the Mallaig Extension. 1901 Mallaig Extension opens. 1923 Britain's Railway companies are grouped into four, LNER takes over station ownsership. 1936 first camping coach at the station. 1947 Britain's railways are nationalised. BR Board takes over station ownership. 1962 last steam-hauled train. 1963 Narrowly escapes Dr Beeching's closure recommendations. 1966 Post Office moves out. 1968 new road link Glenfinnan to Acharacle. Loch Shiel steamer service withdrawn. 1972 Camping coaches disconnected. 1984 steam traction returns to Mallaig line. 1987 radio controlled signalling introduced. 1988 BRs station staff made redundant. 1991 Glenfinnan Station Msueum Trust established, takes onj 99 year lease of station buildingss and completes 1st round of restoration works. 1994 Museum opens dining car. 1996 Museum opens sleeping car. 1997 Britain's railways privatised, station ownership transferred to Railtrack PLC. 2002 Network Rail Ltd takes over station ownership. 2012 Museum completes 2nd round of restoration works.

Welcome to the latest post in my series about my Scottish holiday (May 30th to June 6th). This is my third post about the Thursday.

A COMPACT MUSEUM

There is a small museum at Glenfinnan station, around the history of the line and the station. For all its small size they have managed to cram a lot of interesting stuff in there. We visited it after the weather intervened sufficiently to prevent as from doing a walk that would have taken in a view of the viaduct. It is well worth a visit.

PHOTOGRAPHS

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I am a founder member and currently secretary of the West Norfolk Autism Group and am autistic myself. I am a very keen photographer and almost every blog post I produce will feature some of my own photographs. I am an avidly keen cricket fan and often post about that sport.

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